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On Becoming a VP of Engineering, Part 1: The Path to VP

Honeycomb

This post is part of a short series about my experience in the VP of Engineering role at Honeycomb. In February of 2020, I was promoted from Director of Engineering to Honeycomb’s first VP of Engineering. Happily, all these things turned out to be true and are still true to this day.

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Chief Technology Officer: Understanding the Main Tech Person In a Company

Altexsoft

In an older organization, this is a C-level executive who investigates the technology trends and implements them within the product in accordance with the product vision, strategy, and roadmap. CTO vs CIO vs VP of Engineering vs Technical director. Chief Technology Officer – tech strategy.

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Honeycomb Welcomes New VP of Product

Honeycomb

One year ago, I wrote a similar post welcoming Emily Nakashima to her new role as VP of Engineering. At Honeycomb, it’s important to me that we promote people and hire from within, and that we be transparent about what we choose to reward as an organization. We had confusion where we should have had alignment.

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20 influential women in software development

Apiumhub

She is responsible for R&D (both product management & engineering) for GemFire and associated Pivotal Cloud Cache product. Her preferred coaching method is working side-by-side with testers and teams to help them understand their problems and find good ways to deliver better business value. LinkedIn.

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Meet Sudhir Menon, Ram Venkatesh and Paul Codding – Champions of the Cloudera Hybrid Data Cloud

Cloudera

Sudhir Menon will lead our Engineering and Support teams as our new Chief Product Officer. He has been with Cloudera since early 2020, serving as VP of Engineering – Platforms and then as Corporate VP Hybrid Cloud. Prior to AWS, he spent almost seven years at Hortonworks in product management roles.

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AoAD2 Chapter 6: Invest in Change

James Shore

Large changes—those that directly impact more than 30-70 people—require professional change management. Depending on the size of your organization, your HR department may have change management experts on staff who can help. If not, you can hire consultants. See the “Make Time for Learning” section.).

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AoAD2 Chapter 3: How to Be Agile

James Shore

Start with an influential manager you trust and recruit them as an ally. In your conversations, starting with that first manager, talk about the challenges your organization faces with software development. The engineering manager found my thoughts about scaling insightful, so he introduced me to his VP of Engineering.

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